Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Most Honourable Order of the 37th, 1774, by I. Westwood, struck, oval, 58 x 45mm., silver-gilt, obverse: angel of Victory carrying a scroll and crowning a seated Britannia, with legend, ‘Vincet Amor Patriæ’ and inscription ‘MDCCLXXIIII Sir Eyre Coote K.B. Colonel’ in exergue; reverse: Hercules, holding a club and Minerva, holding a spear, supporting a shield inscribed, ‘The Most Honourable Order of the 37th’, with inscription above and in the exergue, with fixed ring suspension, with usual ‘V’ shaped die crack to obverse and straight die crack across the reverse, edge bruising, very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Ref. Balmer R299.